A curious article in the FT by John Gapper argues that the mainstream US media have moved to the Left to reflect the 'national mood'.

Surely it is more a determined attempt by pro-Democrat tendencies in these outlets to shift the national mood so that their candidate wins?

The Gapper analysis gets a bit confused at times:

All this, and falls in advertising and circulation, is pushing newspapers back to a scrappier, more plain-spoken and partisan “yellow press” past. Instead of soberly trying to filter all information with a careful “on the one hand, on the other hand” balance, they are becoming more colourful in tone and politics.

Some old hacks are shocked. Michael Malone, a columnist and “one of those people who truly bleeds ink when I’m cut”, wrote on ABC News online that the bias to Mr Obama on television and in newspapers was “not just bewildering but appalling”.

Day by Day gets it: